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You’ll get faster download, but your upload speeds drop off a cliff

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Use another fan to make the wifi circular, then your upload speeds shouldnt be hindered

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Then you add ping by changing the path

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You can counter those with a pingpong bat.

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Genius. Where’s your GoFundMe?

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If you make a series of tubes, you can route from the router and reroute back to the router, creating an information highway through, what we call in comp science, a “loop”. Depending on which side you install the turbo, you can replicate the same tech your ISP charges extra for in “speed boost”. If you go bi-turbo—one in inbound and one in the outbound tubes of the loop—you can generate effectively unlimited speed, where onlyfans used in your inbound and outbound tubes limit based on their RPM. This is why I use RC plane turbines. It’s loud, but I’m streaming YT in 480.

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If you put all this in a very small tube that you can easily plug into your router and your PC, then we’ve got real innovation on our hands!

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I’m interested to learn more about this. Any article I could read?

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That’s absurd. You don’t need to route to or from your router. That’s it’s entire job. Do you also run computations for your computer and speak on behalf of your speaker? Complete madness.

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Yes I do, computers calculate okay but I’m different

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I am a computer programmer, this is exactly how it works. Why else do you think electronics have fans in them if not to blow fresh, crisp wifi in and stale, soggy wifi out?

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The trick is rewiring the outlet to 240v. More power = more signal.

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Hey man, 3db is 3db

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Doubling the voltage for a given circuit would result in four times the power, P = V^2 R (*This is wrong, it’s over R, see comment below). So 6db

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Will probably make the signal noisy, so I’d avoid this. I would recommend just putting the router in a booster seat, so it’s higher off the ground.

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No no, everyone knows you’re supposed to put a mirror behind it, duh.

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Funnily enough this may actually have a positive impact

People used to create tinfoil, tin can or wok based reflectors for WiFi to guide the omnidirectional signal into becoming a directional one.

I think the reflective part of some mirrors is essentially tin foil, so it probably would have a mild boosting effect in the direction of the mirror

Edit: in fact if OP’s fan has a rounded metal cage on it, you could take the front half off and you’ve basically got a WokFi setup there, with added danger

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A wire in a Pringles can makes for a fabulous directional can-tenna

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Also if it’s close enough, the metal of the fan itself serves as a pretty decent antennae. You can accomplish the same by taping a fork to the box!

It’s the silliest little lifehack yet wrapping a wire around a fork, then wrapping the other end around the router works so well

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i have used a long tin can, similar to a pringles can before to steal a neighbour wifi back in the day. this is legit

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You’re not wrong. Matter of fact, you’re absolutely right!

Back around 2011, I used a pie pan and USB WiFi dongle to snag the neighbor’s WiFi. My pie pan contraption basically tripled the signal strength, and I never had a single dropout. 👍

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Modern wifi APs have beamforming algorithms. No reflector required.

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I’ve heard about this but not had loads of time to read into how it works and how effective the algorithms are. Do you happen to know about it in depth? I’ve wondered for a while how much efficiency is actually improved by the beamforming and what the limitations are

Like I’ve read about cantennas that fire 802.11g over several hundred meters, which in my understanding is obviously is out of reach for regular WiFi antenna even with beamforming algorithms (or is it? I actually don’t know)

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Yep, and the fan moving in back almost certainly will fuck up beamforming as reflections are fairly important to get the beam to do object avoidance and if your reflective surface is angled and moving quickly…

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The reflective part of mirrors is silver, but yes

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But how does the mirror knows what’s behind the paper?!

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